Catherine Gfeller

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Catherine Gfeller
Born5 March 1966
Neuchâtel
NationalitySwiss
EducationUniversité de Neuchâtel, Université de Lausanne, School of Visual Arts New York
Known forartist, photographer, videoartist, videomaker
Websitecatherinegfeller.com/

Catherine Gfeller (born 5 March 1966) is a Swiss artist.[1][2] She currently lives and works in Paris and Southern France after having lived in New York from 1995 to 1999.[3][4]

Career[edit]

After a Master in Fine Arts in 1991 at the Universities of Neuchâtel and Lausanne, she devoted herself to photography. Gfeller traveled to many different continents (Europe, South Africa, Asia, South America, North America) to create large landscape triptychs (“A Matter of Landscape”). In 1995, she received a grant for a one-year residency in New York. There, she developed a printing technique which combines paper, monoprint and photography on the theme of urban landscape ("Urban Friezes").[5]

In 1999 she was invited for a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris where she received the Photography Award from the HSBC Foundation.[6][7] Paris inspires a new work (“Multi-Compositions”), focused on metaphorical urban subjects using various media: video, sound and the written word. Intimate spaces and daily gestures create new multi-layered compositions where urban rhythms still resonate as an acting presence (“The Insiders”, “Chimeras”, “Domestic Pieces”, “Waders”).

In 2010-2012 her monographic exhibition "Pulsations"[8] was hosted by Museum of Fine Arts La Chaux-de-Fonds, Museum of Fine Arts KKL Luzern and Center of contemporary Arts Sète (South of France) .[9][10]

Recent Projects:

2013: Film "Words of Artists/Portraits of Artists" (87 Min.), Swiss contemporary art, produced by Richard Dindo and Swiss Television RTS Zürich.[11]

2014: Residency and exhibition at WAM Museum in Johannesburg.

2015: Dozen of artistic projects combining installation, performance, photography, video, radio and soundwalk, the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern (architect: Renzo Piano).[12]

2017: "Voices in Kyiv" multi-media exhibition, Shevchenko National Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine.[13]

2018: "Guangzhou Driftings" multi-media exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China. This project will continue with new themes in Hong Kong and Beijing in 2020.[14][15][16][17][18] Catherine Gfeller has exhibited extensively in Switzerland, France, Italy, England, Holland, Germany, Belgium, South America, the United States, Canada, South Africa, Ukraine and China. Her work belongs to private and public collections in Switzerland, France, England, Italy, Germany, Japan, Belgium and the United States. She regularly takes part in Art Fairs, such as ArtBasel, Kunst Zurich, Armory Show, la Fiac, Ljubjana Biennale and Art Bruxelles. Parallel to her exhibitions, Catherine Gfeller is invited to give lectures and workshops in universities.

She also produces large-scale commissions for public spaces.

Solo exhibitions[edit]

Information is from her own web site at catherinegfeller.com[19]

1994

  • Galerie Fotoart Neugebauer, Basel, Switzerland

1995

  • The Matter of Landscape, Royal Pavilion and Art Museum, Brighton, England

1996

  • Landscapes, Center for Photography, Geneva, Switzerland
  • New York Façades, Villa du Jardin alpin, Meyrin, Genève
  • Six Chapel Row  Gallery, Bath, England

1997

  • Frises Urbaines, Villa Le Corbusier (Centre Ebel), La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
  • Urban Friezes, Landon Gallery, New York
  • The Matter of Landscape, Pennings Gallery, Eindhoven, Netherlands

1998

  • Landscapes, Centro cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Blancpain Stepczynski Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Urban Friezes, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia
  • Natural and Urban Landscapes, La Maison française, New-York University, New York
  • Urban Friezes, The Landon Gallery, New York

1999

  • Urban Rituals, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia
  • Frises urbaines, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris
  • Urban Rituals, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida
  • Urban Friezes, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Bergamot Art Center, Los Angeles
  • Catherine Gfeller photography, Swiss Embassy, Paris

2000

  • FIAC, One-man-show C. Gfeller Carzaniga Gallery, Paris
  • Urban images Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida
  • School of Fine Arts, CCF Foundation for Photography, Dijon, France
  • Le Carré Gallery, CCF Foundation for Photography, Lille, France
  • La Filature Gallery, CCF Foundation for Photography, Mulhouse, France
  • Sur l’écran de la ville, Windows in Champs Elysées, Foundation HSBC Foundation for Photography, Paris

2001

  • Serial Visitors, Keitelman Gallery, Bruxelles

2002

  • Versions d’elle, Centre Culturel Switzerland, Mois de la Photo, Paris
  • Parcours Face à Face, ArtMateur, Museum of Fine Arts, Lille, France
  • New York : Frises urbaines, Ileana Bouboulis Gallery, Paris  
  • Urban Friezes, Galerie Carzaniga & Uecker, Basel

2003

  • Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Bergamot Art Center, Los Angeles
  • Fictions Urbaines, Rez d’art contemporain Meyzieu/Lyon, France

2004

  • She wanders through B., Galerie Carzaniga, Basel

2005

  • Jubilee : 250 years, Bank Leu Zurich, Switzerland

2006

  • Many Times, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York
  • D'une Ville l'autre, Carzaniga Gallery, Basel, Switzerland

2008

  • Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Bergamot Art Center, Los Angeles

2009

  • Elles et Villes, Une Gallery, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • Villes et Elles, Carzaniga Gallery, Basel, Switzerland

2010

  • Pulsations, Museum of Fine Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
  • Processions Croisées, Abbatiale de Bellelay, Switzerland
  • Les Frayeuses, Rosa Turetsky Gallery, Geneva

2011

  • Pulsations, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
  • Pulsations, CRAC, Contemporary Art Center, LR, Sète, France

2013

  • Pulsations, Galerie Springer, Berlin
  • Belles de Nuit, Turetsky Gallery, Geneva

2014

  • Identity, C Gallery, Neuchâtel
  • The City is Passing Through You, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Au plus noir du Jour, Carzaniga Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
  • Processions, AL/MA Gallery, Montpellier, France

2015

  • ZigZag ZPK (photo, video, installation, performance, sound walk) Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern[20]
  • Urban Friezes, Batut Gallery Space, F- Labruguière, Midi-Pyrénées

2016

  • Ville de rêves, Neuchâtel University
  • China Drifting, Catherine Gfeller's Exhibition at Galerie RX, Paris, 2018
    A la croisée des mondes avec M. de Meuron, Rondes romaines, MAHN, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

2017

  • End of the games, HtH, National Theater 13 Vents, Montpellier

2018

  • China Driftings, Galerie RX, Paris[21][22][23]
  • Guangzhou Driftings, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
  • Voices in Kyiv, Tars Shevchenko National Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine[24]
  • Cinema and Photography, Festival 7e Art, Marie du VII, Paris

Collective exhibitions[edit]

[25]

1993

  • Digital Landscapes, International  Festival of Photography, Isle of Skye, Scotland
  • Digital Landscapes, International Festival of Photography, The Works, Edmonton, Canada
  • Digital Landscapes, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore
  • Sequenze, Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy

1994

  • Viaggio intorno alla mia camera, Fondazione G.Costa, Genova, Italy

1996

  • Soho Annual, Soho Arts Festival, New York
  • Belluard Bollwerk International Festival, Fribourg, Switzerland

1997

  • Biennal, Museum of Fine Arts La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
  • Aerial Perspectives, DC Moore Gallery, New York
  • Aerial Perspectives Kendall Gallery, Miami
  • Swiss Art: Old World, New World, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia
  • Group Show, Tibor de Nagy/First Street Gallery, New York
  • Selections, Visual Arts Gallery, Soho, New York

1998

  • Triennal, Museum of Fine Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland
  • Boston International Fine Art Show, Pentimenti Gallery, Boston
  • Kunst Zurich Art Fair, Carzaniga and Uecker Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Ritratti, Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy
  • New York Visions, Michael Ingbar Gallery, New York
  • Auction, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
  • Young Artists, Sotheby's, Tel-Aviv, Israël2

1999

  • Beyond Landscapes, Schneider Gallery, Chicago
  • Art Basel 30, Carzaniga Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
  • Swiss Art, Auction, Swiss Institute of New York, New York
  • Summer Show, Fotografie Forum, Frankfurt
  • Soho Annual, Soho Arts Festival, New York
  • Belluard Bollwerk International Festival, Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Cultura ArtFair, Alexia Goethe Fine Art Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
  • Six Young Artists, Carzaniga and Uecker Gallery, Basel, Switzerland

2000

  • Paris Photo, Corporate Collections CCF, Paris
  • Mois de la Photo, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris
  • Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco
  • Art Basel 31, Carzaniga Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
  • Urban images, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach
  • KunstZurich, Carzaniga and Uecker Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland

2001

  • Not Landscape, Camera Works, San Francisco, California
  • FIAC, Keitelmann Gallery, Paris
  • Francophonies, Museum of Fine Arts, Ottawa
  • De natura rerum, Paysage - cosa mentale, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris
  • Lubljana  24th Biennal, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Art Basel 32, Carzaniga Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
  • Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel
  • Art Brussels, Keitelmann Gallery, Bruxelles
  • Art Miami, Haim Chanin Gallery, NY, Miami
  • International Triennal of Prints, Le Locle, Switzerland  

2002

  • Photographie Romande, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Art Basel 33, Carzaniga Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
  • Expo 02, Diaporama, Museum of Fine Arts Square, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • Art Brussels, Keitelmann Gallery, Bruxelles
  • Armory Show, Eyestorm, New York
  • The colour of white, Gallery at Pentagram Design, London  

2003

  • Art Basel, Carzaniga Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
  • Interdit aux moins de 18 ans, Une Gallery, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • Intimités, Hôtel de ville, Paris
  • VideoKiosk Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
  • States, Filmprogramm, Movie Theater of contemporary arts center of Meyzieu/Lyon
  • Nuit Blanche Videoprogramm, Movie Theater l’Entrepôt, Paris

2004

  • Paris Photo, Carrousel du Louvre, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris
  • Narratives, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York
  • 20 Years, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles
  • Notte, Fondazione Olivetti, Rome
  • D’un espace à l’autre, 2nd Biennal Contemporary Arts, Saint-Cloud, Paris

2005

  • La Nuit de la Photo, 50 Swiss Photographers, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Villes imprévisibles, Architecture Forum, Design Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland

2006

  • Paris Photo Studio Franck Bordas, Paris  

2007

  • Biennal, Museum of Fine Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds (Award), Switzerland
  • Migrations, Biennal Contemporary Arts, Dieppe, France
  • Off Time, SaarlandMuseum Saarbrücken, Germany
  • Contemporary Photography, Laureats Award Foundation HSBC for Photography, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
  • FIAF, Festival Video, Espace Neruda, Nîmes
  • Shift Video Festival, Basel

2008

  • Festival Video du Centre Pompidou et Musée Fabre, AL/MA Gallery, Montpellier, France
  • Still Cinema 6, OpenEyeGallery, Contemporary Arts Biennal, Liverpool
  • Make Believe, Photographic Days, ArtCenter Pasquart, Bienne
  • Jeanne Lombard et les Artistes contemporaines, Museum of Fine Arts, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

2009

  • Cheminements, Center of Photography, Lectoure, Toulouse, France
  • Video Installation on 6 screens, Eglise Saint-Clar and Chapelle Saint-Blaise, France
  • Ex Nugis Seria, Fondation nationale des arts plastiques, Maison des Arts, Nogent-sur-Marne, Paris
  • ArteVideoNight, Preview, Centre Pompidou, Paris and FIAC, Paris
  • KunstZurich, Carzaniga Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

2010

  • La revanche de l’Archive, Festival 50 JPG, Center of Photography, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Tribute to Nadar, French Embassy, Trinité des Monts, Rome and Museum Marino Marini, Florence
  • Complicity, 60 years of Picto, Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
  • Séries, Suites, Variations, Museum of Fine Arts, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • Kunst Zurich, Galerie Carzaniga, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Projection, 15 years Foundation for Photography, RIP, Arles

2011

  • L’Oeil sur les rues, La Villette, Paris
  • Images-Mouvement, Center of Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Art Basel, Carzaniga Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
  • Territories of Light, Ecole française de Rome, Piazza Navone, Rome
  • VideoParcours « Finis», Transhitorisches Museum, Pfyn, Switzerland
  • Millenium, Museum of Fine Arts, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

2012

  • Snow, Ilan Engel Gallery, Paris
  • 'Undercurrents', Stephen Haller Gallery, New York
  • Belles de Jour, Galerie Une, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • Objectifs, Objectivités, Officine Fotografiche, Rome
  • Saison Vidéo,, Espaces Croisés, Lille, France
  • 30 Anniversary, Rosa Turetsky Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Ex Nugis Seria, Collection of F. Denaës, Le Château d’eau, Toulouse, France
  • 10 Years, Galerie AL/MA, Montpellier

2013

  • Art Paris, Grand Palais, Galerie Ilan Engel
  • SynchroniCity, Ilan Engel Gallery, Paris
  • Feminine Spirituality, Hiéron Museum, Paray-le-Monial, France
  • Urbi et Orbi: Biennal of Video and Photography, Sedan, France
  • Collection Julius Baer, Museo cantonale d'arte, Lugano, Switzerland
  • Contemporary Artists France-Italy, Palazzo delle Belle Arti, Torino, Italy
  • Kunst Zürich, Carzaniga Gallery, Zürich

2014

  • First Choice, Galerie Springer, Berlin
  • Kunst Zürich, Galerie Carzaniga, Zürich
  • Video-Time, Ilan Engel Gallery, Paris

2015

  • Art en plein air Môtiers, Môtiers, Switzerland
  • Imago Mundi Helvetia, Luciano Benetton Collection, Fondazione Cini, Venice Biennal, Venice
  • Alt+1000 Contemporary Photography Festival, Rossinière (Gstaad Region)[26]
  • A.I.R. Arlberg Hospiz, St.Christoph und Bregenz, Tirol, Austria
  • Meta Project, Galerie Laurent Müller, Paris
  • Kunst Zürich Art Fair, Carzaniga Gallery, Zürich
  • Le Nonante-Neuf, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles

2016

  • Cityscapes, Carzaniga Gallery, Basel
  • Arts speaks out, Ikono TV, Museum Istanbul Modern
  • Dream to Utopia (MdM), Gallery C, Neuchâtel

2018

  • Carnets, Halle Nord, Centre d'art en l'Ile, Genève
  • Dialogues Art sacré/art contemporain,  Churches in Ariège

2019

  • Fotografica, FotoMuseo, Bogotà
  • Art Genève, Rosa Turetsky Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland

2020

  • (cooming soon) Bxl Universel, L’Usine électrique, Bruxelles

Bibliography[edit]

Monographs[edit]

  • "Catherine Gfeller : Processions croisées", textes : Bernard Comment et Caroline Nicod, Edition Clandestin et Fondation de l’Abbatiale de Bellelay, Bienne, Switzerland, 2010
  • "Pulsations", exhibition Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Chaux-de-Fonds et Kunstmusem Luzern, textes : Paul Ardenne, Elisabeth Lebovici, Françoise Ninghetto, Urs Sahel, Edizioni Perfiferia, Lucerne, 2010
  • "Vidéo-Divagations", text : Frédérique Villemur Editions de l’Espérou, Montpellier, France, 2011
  • "Sévilles en vierges", text Jean-Pierre Brice Olivier, Bernard Salignon, Editions du Cerf, Paris, 2012
  • "Au plus noir du jour", text Jérôme Neutres, Carzaniga Gallery, Basel, 2014

Collective Books[edit]

  • "A Matter of Landscape," text : Julia Ballerini, exhibition New York, New York, 1997
  • "Urban Rituals", text : A. Mingam, Collection Fondation HSBC pour la Photographie, Editions Actes Sud, Arles, France,1999
  • "Regard sur la Villa turque de Le Corbusier", textes: Daniel Schwarz et C.Gfeller, Editions Montres Ebel, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, 1999
  • "Urban Scenes", A. Carzaniga, text : A. Carzaniga et C.Gfeller, Basel, Switzerland, 1999
  • "La ville, un corps sensible", texte:Urs Stahel, Galerie Carzaniga +Uecker, Basel, Switzerland, 2000
  • "Serial Visitors", text : Bernard Comment, Editions Galerie Carzaniga & Uecker, Basel, Switzerland, 2002
  • "Dérobades", Carnets de la création contemporaine, texte : Bernard Salignon, Editions de l’œil et Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2002
  • "Fictions urbaines", texts :Bernard Salignon, Rez d'art contemporain, Meyzieu-Lyon, France, 2003
  • "250 Jahre Bank Leu : Im Wechsel der Perspektiven", texte : Andreas Honegger, Editions Orell Füssli, Zürich, 2005
  • "Villes et Elles", text : Guido Magnaguagno, Galerie Carzaniga, Basel, 2009

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